Example sentences of "these year [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and all these years they spend . |
| 2 | During these years she made her journeys in record time . |
| 3 | Will was writing more slowly now , but during these years he wrote some of his best plays : Othello , Macbeth , and King Lear . |
| 4 | All these years he had had it and kept it for safety and secrecy 's sake inside a boring medical book . |
| 5 | All these years he had been carrying on on the side and now here was actual proof of it . |
| 6 | During these years he found time to study law and in 1873 was called to the Irish bar . |
| 7 | In these years he remembered , too , his early concern with the city , recording his debts to Thomson and Davidson . |
| 8 | But in all these years he has certainly been spared those other , uninvited , distractions which sweep over our lives , a snowstorm of diversion and entertainment and half-understood knowledge . |
| 9 | In these years he published on American history and established his own private press , the Guyon House Press , which , however , came to an end in the air raids of December 1940 . |
| 10 | And er that 's how I performed the , but I kept it to myself all these years you know and never told anybody what I 'd done because I think it was terrible . |
| 11 | All these years you 've spent chasing after something you know you ca n't have . |
| 12 | To think that for all these years I had tried to protect them from this very fate and I had n't even the pleasure of using them very often . |
| 13 | I thought that after all these years I 'd finally tamed her . |
| 14 | ‘ All these years I 've been talking and telling , ’ he writes , ‘ and I 'm not sure if anybody listens or understands me . |
| 15 | He 's told friends , " All these years I 've thrown away money on that child . " |
| 16 | ‘ All these years I 've known her and I never realised what a nasty temper she has , ’ said Rose . |
| 17 | All these years I 've been an idiot . |
| 18 | ‘ Would you credit it — all these years I 've wondered how on earth you 've managed to avoid falling in love , given all the glorious hunks you had to choose from , just falling over themselves to be near you . |
| 19 | Holy Mary , she thought , all these years I 've been a good girl — ca n't you do something ? |
| 20 | Alter all these years I thought the man in our house was my dad , and he was n't . |
| 21 | ‘ All these years I denied my love . |
| 22 | All these years I tried to kill it . ’ |
| 23 | And the one thing that I over all these years I have found and I 've come more and more into is aromatherapy , because it 's not |
| 24 | After all these years it had finally happened ! |
| 25 | It was a phrase with many shades of meaning , but essentially in these years it came to refer to that freedom from lay intervention in ecclesiastical appointments and operations which it was Hugh 's special mission to promote . |
| 26 | For most consensus theorists , the answer lies in a theory of social structure made famous by Durkheim in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and developed to such an extent by Talcott Parsons and his followers in the USA between the 1930s and 1950s that during these years it came to be seen as the sociological theory . |